Referencing local precedents, the Bowtie House fuses modernist ideals with vernacular strategies, making use of a linearly organized plan to respond to the Ozark context.  

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Architects: deMx architecture

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

Area: 2756.0 ft2

Project Year: 2007

Photographs: Tim Hursley

Landscape: Stewart Fulbright

Structural: James Burke

General Contractor : Ira Schwartzman

© Tim Hursley

Referencing local precedents, the Bowtie House fuses modernist ideals with vernacular strategies, making use of a linearly organized plan to respond to the Ozark context.  
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Located by Fayetteville in Arkansas, this house for a couple frequently visited by their family is near the Ozark Mountains.  Situated on a heavily wooded site, the 23? wide house is oriented with its 94? length running roughly northwest to southeast.  This orientation allows tree-filtered light into the house during the mornings and late afternoons.

© Tim Hursley

Sitting on a sloping terrain between two draws, the house?s program is distributed on three levels at the northwest end, with the main floor extending continuously to the southeast and minimizing the house?s foot print.  The primary public spaces and the master bedroom ...